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...time when the U.S. population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million people perished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate F. Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years. The difference in the death toll between 1918 and 1968 had little to do with such medical advances as antibiotics for secondary bacterial infections. The 1968 virus was simply much less virulent. But it wasn't just the virus. As with Hurricane Katrina, some of the deaths in 1918 were the government's responsibility. Surgeon General Rupert Blue...
...estimates that influenza kills 36,000 Americans in an average year. The CDC also calculates that a pandemic caused by a virus comparable to that of 1968 would kill between 89,000 and 207,000 Americans. And the scientist who prepared that study has refused to estimate the toll from a more virulent virus because, he says, he doesn't want to "scare" people...
...Bush aide Karl Rove prepares for his fourth grand-jury appearance, the federal probe into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the media is believed to be wrapping up. But the investigation has taken a toll on White House aides, many of whom now fear that the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, is intent on issuing indictments. "Fitzgerald's office, although very professional, has been very aggressive in pursuing people," the adviser said. "These guys are bullies, and they threaten...
...wobbly. We bounce back and forth between being scared silly and just plain apathetic. Influenza regularly kills 1 million people a year--36,000 of them in the U.S.--yet most of us don't get vaccinated. The new threat requires a different response--a healthy respect for the toll that even a moderate pandemic may take on our society and just enough genuine fear to figure out some smart steps to take to minimize the damage. "We need to scare people into their wits, not out of them," says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research...
Breaux, a freshman wide receiver for the Harvard football team, was last on the depth chart heading into training camp. But weeks later, after an impressive performance against Lehigh and after a spate of injuries took its toll on the Crimson’s receiver corps, Breaux now finds his name at the top of the same chart...